AppYaMpilo

• We plan to successfully connect all public health institutions countrywide and distribute smart hand devices to community health workers and households.

• The initiative envisages to reduce infant fatalities due to inadequate prenatal care.

• Reduce and or eradicate rate of defaulting HIV/AIDS patients.

• Reduce the traffic in Health Centres to a minimum. To allow them to attend to other emergencies and very serious cases.

• Disrupt the chronic patients interaction with the health system.

• From testing, to treatment delivery and managing the supply chain

• Plug the gaps with community-centred health tools and health workers

• We realized that chronic cases and prenatal patients are affected as priority was given to the soaring infection numbers.
• We thought of an initiative to provide wireless connectivity and a smart device to homes in disadvantaged settlements, homes that have chronic cases such as HIV/AIDS and expectant mothers who are either living with the virus and/ or infected with HIV/AIDS.
• It aims: 
• To enable patients to have consultations on-line with their health care givers while they avoid congesting the health facilities and risking being infected.
• To provide accessible health care to HIV/AIDS infected patients, in order to reduce and eradicate in-utero infections. 
• To alleviate the problem of defaulting from chronic treatment which results in drug resistant, opportunistic infections.           
• We plan to make use of the Community Health workers that were assisting tirelessly during the peak of the COVID 19 outbreak, who are now left without jobs for the following functions:

  
  

  • Home visits, testing and collecting other data such as: chronic cases per household
  • Assisting in downloading the e-health app for citizens who have no digital skills, and educating them on how to make use of the app.
  • Scheduling follow up appointments. Collecting needed prescriptions and 
  • Delivering such chronic medication and other prescription as needed and required.
  • Actively monitoring, with the assistance of a qualified doctor on a video call, pre-natal cases as pregnancy progresses and scheduling delivery dates and methods as required.
                       

The solution envisages to impact the HIV/AID infected and affected communities both in urban and rural South Africa.

Expectant mothers and newly born babies.

The solution should reduce and/ or eradicate mother to child infection during birth and thus giving birth to new HIV/AIDS free citizenry using technology.

Further reduce and / or eradicate HIV/AIDS defaulters and curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS. 

My team have deep knowledge of the challenges that are faced by rural societies as they are natives. They have deep passion for solving these problems. We also have the deep zeal to spread out digital maturity to rural South Africa through surveys on digital maturity, segmentation and eventually basic skills training.

This solution is very much needed, looking at the statistics of HIV/AIDS resistance in this day and age, stigmatization, I almost thought that problem would have been resolved by now. The youth are not actively involved in the economy, most are born unwell and have given up on pursuing future endeavors. Some have a life span that will hinder them from being active members in the economy. The disease is literally robbing us of potential leaders, scientists, engineers etc. 

My solution aims to bring HIV/ AIDS management to the people, accessible pre natal care to expectant parents living with chronic conditions. The impact it aims to have is to reach more infected persons, encourage treatment, reduce infections during birth, by addressing the pre-natal treatment and ultimately infant mortality especially due to HIV/AID. We also aim to reduce to eliminate in utero infections. We envisage that this will impact greatly on children on HIV/AIDS treatment. 

• Disrupt the chronic patients interaction with the health system.

• From testing, to treatment delivery and managing the supply chain

• Plug the gaps with community-centred health tools and health workers

As mentioned before, it is still in idea phase so essentially, no work has been done as yet, however, the impact forecasted should be far reaching as South Africa has many rural and township societies who have limited access to, technology and innovative healthcare systems.

Internet Connectivity, smart phones for video conferencing with professional health practitioners

We are made up of a diverse team of professionals from completely different backgrounds. Mostly 4 of us are females and 3 are males. We share the same passion and have all been affected in one way or the other by the HIV/AIDS epidemic long before 2020.